You can find Spanish language books on Amazon and in most bookstores as well as the library in most places in the US. DS enjoys Clifford, Dora, Backyardigans, etc. They are just as reasonably priced here as English language books. We've also had luck buying used lots of Spanish language books on ebay. HTH

I don't have any copies to lend out because we borrow ours form the local Alliance Francaise. Have you checked your library for them? If you are wondering what they are like, I can tell you that the main story is found on the accompanying CD and there is one other easier story in the magazine. Also some games and a couple comic strips. There are about 50 pages. It is a nice little magazine, but not one I would necessarily subscribe to. Although I did hear that you can get decent rates here if you are in the US. Also, you might contact Milan Presse and ask for sample issues of magazines. I have done this before and received them. ETA incidentally, it comes with an audio CD, not a CD ROM.

:iagree: with all of this. (and I like the use of schmuck. very apt for someone named weiner. :lol:) Personally, I don't care what politicians do in their spare time as long as it is not illegal and they're doing a decent job. But man, how stupid some of these people are!

I agree with regentrude. Maybe you could do a soft start by having Spanish only meals or, I dunno, Spanish Saturday or Latin music day or something like that. I think HS in Spanish is a great idea. You could contact companies/suppliers to see if they have Spanish editions of your curricula. I've only contacted one so far, but they (math-u-see) are working on releasing a Spanish version of their program soon and I doubt they are the only one. You could also do a lot of your reading in Spanish. I don't know where you live, but IME most library systems have a pretty extensive collection of Spanish materials and/or you can ask them to order them for you. Here are some math suggestions put out by the US Dept of Education. There are probably ideas for other subjects as well, but I googled matematicas. Here's a website in Chile with lots of great homeschooling links. The advantage of Spanish is that so many people in so many countries speak it that it should be easy to find resources. eta Greg Tang has some fun math books that have been translated into Spanish. One DS likes is Come una y cuenta 20.

I would just start speaking Spanish to the children. Children learn amazingly quickly. In our home, I speak only French to DS and have since he was born. Much to my dismay, my husband - who is fluent in Spanish although not a native speaker - did not start speaking Spanish until a few months before DS took his first trip with us to Central America at age three. Fast forward three years and DS is now completely comfortable speaking Spanish, speaks exclusively in Spanish to DH, and gets upset if his father speaks to him in anything but Spanish. So DH and I do OPOL (one parent one language) with DS but speak English to each other. It works out very well. We spend part of the summer in a Spanish speaking country, which helps reinforce the Spanish. We also read mostly in French and Spanish, and what little video watching takes place is exclusively in French or Spanish. Good luck! It might seem a little awkward at first switching to another language (this is what DH told me in the beginning), but soon it will be natural and, of course, the benefits for the children are enormous.

DS's absolute favorite is "Pedro Infante y sus Amigos Canciones Infantiles". It is Mexican, not Puerto Rican, and definitely old-fashioned (Pedro Infante died in 1957), but it has such a sweet sense of humor and is so catchy that I often find myself singing them and I, unlike DS, am very far from being a fluent Spanish speaker. There is also an online site called Hello-World where you can find some traditional songs (un elefante, caballito blanco, la cucaracha, etc). HTH